Jill Langlois
Journalist at Freelance
Award-winning journalist in Brazil since 2010. @NatGeo @nytimes @guardian @YaleE360 etc. @PulitzerCenter @Amazon_RJF @IWMF. EN/FR/PT [email protected]
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1 month ago |
sierraclub.org | Jill Langlois
Avenida Liberdade (“Freedom Avenue”) took one of its first victims months before its planned completion. A construction worker was using a tractor to fell trees just outside Belém, a major metropolitan area in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, to make way for the new expressway when the machine ran over an armadillo.
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Feb 3, 2025 |
sierraclub.org | Jill Langlois
Heat waves, floods, wildfires, worsening air quality, and outbreaks of communicable diseases are all exacerbated by climate change, and they're affecting not only the well-being of our planet but also the health of those who live on it. And humans are not the only ones experiencing everything from worsening seasonal allergies to increased respiratory and cardiovascular disease to severe injuries caused by extreme weather events or natural disasters.
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Jan 25, 2025 |
boisestatepublicradio.org | Jill Langlois
It was a sunny September morning in Rio de Janeiro's Parque Arará favela and volunteers were preparing plants to be placed on Reginaldo Gomes da Silva's roof. Students from both the neighborhood elementary school and nearby federal university helped roll up Spanish moss, kalanchoe and other tropical succulents in bidim, a lightweight polyester geotextile made of recycled drink bottles.
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Jan 25, 2025 |
opb.org | Jill Langlois
Luis Cassiano is the founder of Teto Verde Favela, a nonprofit that teaches favela residents in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, how to build their own green roofs as a way to beat the heat. He's photographed at his house, which has a green roof. It was a sunny September morning in Rio de Janeiro’s Parque Arará favela and volunteers were preparing plants to be placed on Reginaldo Gomes da Silva’s roof.
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Jan 16, 2025 |
sierraclub.org | Jill Langlois
Climate change is leaving more and more of the population exposed to a series of worsening environmental disasters: the current Los Angeles wildfires, 2024’s hurricanes Helene and Milton, damaging windstorms during a 2022 blizzard in the Northeast, among many others. No matter where you live, being prepared for the emergencies most likely to happen in your region is key to keeping a cool head, and being taken care of in the event of an evacuation.
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